Working in the NBA taught McClintock valuable lessons.
Michael "Butch" McClintock has been to the big time, the NBA, and has seen first-hand all of the greats of the game.
He served the San Antonio Spurs as video coordinator and equipment manager under coaches Jerry Tarkanian and John Lucas. In 1992-93, he was promoted to fulltime video coordinator duties as that aspect of scouting and game preparation became more important and time consuming than ever before.
Several years later, McClintock remains in close contact with Lucas, who today serves as an assistant coach for the Philadelphia 76sers.
The similarities between Lucas, noted as a "players' coach" but one who also provided near-parental guidance to his players when needed or asked, and new Demon basketball coach Mike McConathy helped bring McClintock to the NSU basketball staff.
FOr the past two seasons, McClintock was head boys basketball coach at Loyola College Prep in Shreveport as well as serving as an assistant coach on McConathy's staff at Bossier Parish Community College
Previously, he served for two seasons as an assistant coach at Ball State, helping the Cardinals reach the 1995 NCAA Tournament.
He was with the Spurs from 1992-94 after spending a year as the head coach at Rend Lake Junior College in 1991-92. He took that position after a year as associate head coach at powerful Seminole (Fla.) Community College and two years as assistant coach at Division II Armstrong (Ga.) State, where he signed the top-rated junior college point guard in the country and the No. 10-ranked power forward in the juco ranks.
During that period, he also served as head basketball coach at Verona High school in the Savannah area.
The personable McClintock, who goes to great effort not to miss any news on his beloved Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, is also a proud graduate of the University of Wisconsin, earning a bachelor's in physical education in 1988.
McClintock brings an added dimension to the Demon program as he has outstanding organizational and management skills.
At Armstrong State, he developed a fundraising program which generated $18,000 to support the basketball team in the first year of the endeavor.
He also spent a year in the medical sales business as a district sales manager for Insulin Infusion Specialties, takin his district's production and increasing it 10 times.
"It's all about identifying individuals' strengths and incorporating them into a team concept so that they reached their full potential," he said. "That applies to coaching basketball just as it does to managing a sales team."
Among the many roles McClintock has fulfilled include NCAA compliance duties at Ball State, recruiting coordinator's responsibilities there, overseeing summer basketball camps and fundraising activities, and scouting and game preparation duties.
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